Challenges to waiver language have not come up enough in caselaw since Van Wersh for us to have definitively worded notice language. However, the basic principle of waiver is that notice must be clear for any subsequent claim of waiver to be knowing. Many agencies...
By Deborah Hopkins, April 10, 2019 In federal sector employment law, we often use terms of art that carry very specific meaning. These terms may vary from a typical dictionary definition, or even from a black-letter law definition. Examples include discipline, due...
By William Wiley Questions, we get questions. And the answer for this one comes straight out of our famous “Charges” day in our equally famous MSPB Law Week seminar: Dear FELTG Team- We have an employee who has been charged with “fraud.” We are not sure that his...
Event Description FELTG’s annual Emerging Issues in Federal Employment Law has a simple mission — to ensure the Federal workplace is accountable, that it looks more like the America it serves, and that you have[...]